Description

What?

Intent Radio (or IR) is an audio media app without a graphical user interface. It is controlled exclusively through the delivery of broadcast intents, typically generated by automation apps such as Tasker. If you don’t know what a broadcast intent is, then this is probably not the app for you.

Despite the name, IR will happily play local audio media too.

Why?

It’s simple: automation.

Tasker is an automation app for Android. It’s a small graphical programming language combined with a mechanism to fire off tasks in response to various events.

IR was written primarily to be driven by Tasker, either via task shortcuts, or in response to events such as a headset plugged in or out. Or perhaps based on the type of network to which you’re attached. Or the network’s SSID . Or the time of day. Or the day of the week. Or some combination of the above. Or whatever…

And it goes on...

Automatically change station at a particular time. Or turn off (or on) at a particular time. Or listen to different stations depending on where you are. Or use AutoVoice to choose a radio station. Or choose a random station from a playlist. And so on.

Put another way, Intent Radio provides external access to an instance of the Android MediaPlayer.

For more details, see the project web page: http://intent-radio.smblott.org/

If you have a previous version of Intent Radio installed, perhaps installed from F-Droid, then you will have to uninstall that version before installing this version. Or, you can always just stick with that version. They're the same thing.

Intent Radio (or IR) is an audio media app without a graphical user interface. It is controlled exclusively through the delivery of broadcast intents, typically generated by automation apps such as Tasker. If you don’t know what a broadcast intent is, then this is probably not the app for you.

Despite the name, IR will happily play local audio media too.

Why?

It’s simple: automation.

Tasker is an automation app for Android. It’s a small graphical programming language combined with a mechanism to fire off tasks in response to various events.

IR was written primarily to be driven by Tasker, either via task shortcuts, or in response to events such as a headset plugged in or out. Or perhaps based on the type of network to which you’re attached. Or the network’s SSID . Or the time of day. Or the day of the week. Or some combination of the above. Or whatever…

And it goes on...

Automatically change station at a particular time. Or turn off (or on) at a particular time. Or listen to different stations depending on where you are. Or use AutoVoice to choose a radio station. Or choose a random station from a playlist. And so on.

Put another way, Intent Radio provides external access to an instance of the Android MediaPlayer.

For more details, see the project web page: http://intent-radio.smblott.org/

If you have a previous version of Intent Radio installed, perhaps installed from F-Droid, then you will have to uninstall that version before installing this version. Or, you can always just stick with that version. They're the same thing.